Wizards (7-15) at Kings (10-13)

Sure, the Wizards have had some trouble closing out games, but Coach Flip Saunders isn't getting so desperate that he needs help calling inbounds plays from fans. ESPN.com has offered fans the opportunity to design an inbounds play http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/news/story?id=4744810 that the Wizards might consider using during a game. When asked about the plan, Saunders said, "We haven't really totally committed on that."

Saunders said that ESPN reporter Ric Bucher presented him with the idea to let fans submit plays for the Wizards to review. Fans can send their proposals to espnwizardsplay@gmail.com, with the subject line, "Inbounds." They have to be submitted by Dec. 23.

"If we do it, it was designed to be something interactive with fans, where the first quarter or something, you run a play that they had, see what they have and do something like that," Saunders said. "It wasn't an end of the game thing. We're still kind of playing around with where it actually goes. We're not exactly sure."

Just a few weeks after the Wizards faced Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings, the Wizards get another promising rookie point guard in Sacramento's Tyreke Evans, who averages 20 points per game. Like Jennings, Evans also worked out for the Wizards, but Saunders said his workout was so impressive, they didn't think he'd be around for No. 5.

"We had him rated as the second-best player after [Blake] Griffin," Saunders said. "We knew if he worked out for other people like he did for us, he wouldn't be there. That was one of the situations that evolved."

Mike James did not travel with the team on this West Coast trip. Saunders said the Wizards decided to leave James behind because there wouldn't be the practice time available for James to get in enough work. James obviously wasn't going to have much time to get on the floor after missing the past five weeks with a broken left ring finger.

"He's not ready yet. He's working back home to get more work back home with our therapists and our practice facility. We only had the gyms for an hour," Saunders said. "Mike is a workaholic, he likes to get two or three workouts at a time."

Javaris Crittenton is yet to make his season debut after having surgery on his left foot, but he is with the team and has been able to participate in practice and walkthroughs this week. Saunders explained why Crittenton is there while James is not. "Javaris hasn't been around. Hasn't been through training camp. He needs to be around to see what we're doing."

we suck. poor chemistry. terrible shot selection. poor rebounding. little effort. zero defense. did you see that steal on arenas by the rookie (one of those i wanted us to draft)??? wtf was gilbert thinking? drive on a bigger guy who is just as quick??? please. take the ball outta his hands!

They gotta break this team up. When Miller comes back Flip is going to have even more rotation problems. Just completely sick of their ineptitude.
Boykins played nice the first couple of games, but the offense is completely stagnant when he's in the game.
Why is Foye not playing point more?

this team neva eva ceases to amaze me! they lose to the clippers and the kings! does that make us the worst team in the NBA? we have three former all-stars!!! what in the name of Susan O'Malley is happening?? this team is better than this...this is mind boggling. this nonsense is not funny at all...so i guess now we have to go through this with the wiz after the season we just suffered through with the redskins!! man...if i could i would call for an all out boycott of this team/organization until they show heart or make some moves to get some motivated athletes on this squad...athletes with heart and a will to compete!!!

MINNESOTA, PHILADELPHIA, NEW JERSEY, GOLDEN STATE: teams with worst records than the wizards...FACT: we have the longest CURRENT losing streak (5 games) out of all the teams listed above. this is not good...

Once again you pups are being fed make believe food again (gil look like his old self, don't believe it just look at the compitition he was playing against) this team is a piece of sh**t and is not going to get any better. It was just wait for gil just wait for jamison just wait for miller just wait for a team that actually knows how to play the game.

Did anyone else notice that at 3:20 left in the 4th quarter Gil made the second of a pair of free throws and yet the point was never added to the scoreboard!?! That really cost us that game. If you have tivo check it out.

"Did anyone else notice that at 3:20 left in the 4th quarter Gil made the second of a pair of free throws and yet the point was never added to the scoreboard!?! That really cost us that game. If you have tivo check it out.

Posted by: jparker2001"

Yea I noticed that bs but it was just ESPN that forgot to add that one point...comcast sports net had the right score the whole time and what really messed me up is when they didn't give us those two points when the refs failed to reset the shot clock.....SMH